Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27325392-20161121052555/@comment-27248965-20161121140326

Really? This Wiki has become garbage??? What have we done......???

Seriously. I reckon that this Wiki is nowhere near garbage. There is no need to start over yet. There are many more Wikis which are much worse in quality than this Wiki, at least one of them being our competitors. We have followed the guidelines here, and what we have done actually does not differ too much from the Manual Of Style on the new Wiki. Maybe this Wiki is, currently, information-based rather than community-based, but we can gradually alter it. Yeah, maybe I should use the chat more often.

We have kept the grammar in check. Some of the editors, including myself, are not native English speakers, but we still correct any glaring grammar mistakes we find. There are always rooms for improvements, some sentences can be rephrased to clarify the meaning, but if there really are so many grammar mistakes, I may have to consider resigning because I'm failing on my job. We have also stopped any use of second-person words -- "you" and "your", in the main space articles (except for quoting in-game dialogues) -- which there is a certain page on the new Wiki that has actually failed on this, sorry for picking on that.

We have created or modified most of the pages with structural planning: location pages strictly follow the standard of Summary - Notable Places/Events - Wild Pokemon - Trainers - Items - Trivia, while character pages I created recently go by Summary - History - Personality - Dialogue - Battles. There are clear formats here. Some pages had certain things displaced before (such as EV yield being set to the right of Reward column, rather than to the left), but we have fixed that. We have also categorized most of the pages as well. There are some long pages like essays, I'd agree -- which is the reason that Anthian City article was split a couple of weeks ago. But the articles are still very organized and can definitely benefit players. I hardly see any pages to be a mess -- except a certain article which is marked for deletion (I don't know how to fix it, so I don't even dare to touch it), and the earliest versions of some pages which have been overhauled already.

I've seen the new Wiki. Basically the biggest difference in the main space (as of now) is that the articles there are completely spoiler-free -- "Notable Events" are completely gone. I can't help but notice that a few pages seem to be based on older versions of the articles here, rather than the newest version -- sorry, the misplaced EV Yield column was an obvious giveaway. There are also the user boxes for user pages. I don't think that there is any template that will only work over there and not here, but we do need a team of users who excel in creating and implementing templates -- not every user can grasp how to use templates easily and quickly, even if the instruction is posted on the forum. I'd freely admit that I don't have the required skills.

One thing I'll admit though: I like the font style on the new Wiki a lot more. The ALL CAPS titles here ought to be replaced. Still, we have put so much effort on expanding and maintaining this Wiki, I'm sure that we have done our job well, and I definitely don't want to see it die so soon, on a reason that doesn't seem to necessitate a complete reboot.